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triste

See also: Triste, triște, and třísté

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English trist, triste (-e form is less common), borrowed from Old French trist, triste,[1] from Latin trīstis (“sad, sorrowful”). Re-borrowed late 18c. (as “dull, uninteresting”) as a French word in English and often spelled triste.[2]

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triste (comparative more triste, superlative most triste)

  1. (rare) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
    • 1877, R. Elton Smilie, chapter XXIX, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derécho, Imprenta De Razon, pages 399–400:
      He said, he wanted them to take us to Heraclea that we might be educated so that we would be always good, and could be present with him and mamma although absent in body, which would keep them from feeling sad and lonely. But we could see that mamma and he were very, very triste. This made us sorry. So he talked to us of all you had written of the happiness of the people here, because they were truly good and pure in their love toward each other, without selfish concealments; then we were glad and wanted to be with you.

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  1. ^ “trist(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: “OF trist & triste.”
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “trist”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Danish

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triste

  1. plural and definite singular attributive of trist

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French triste, borrowed from Latin trīstis. Old French originally had trist, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, a variant of the same word.

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triste (plural tristes)

  1. sad
    Synonyms: chagriné, déçu, désappointé, désenchanté, malheureux
    Antonyms: béat, bienheureux, comblé, content, enchanté, épanoui, gai, heureux, joyeux, ravi, réjoui, satisfait

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  • Louisiana Creole: tris
  • → Danish: trist
  • → Dutch: triest
  • → English: triste
  • →? Franco-Provençal: tristo
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: trist
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: trist
  • → Swedish: trist
  • → German: trist

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese triste, presumably a borrowing from Latin trīstis.

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triste m or f (plural tristes)

  1. sad, unhappy
    Antonym: alegre

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German

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triste

  1. inflection of trist:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Interlingua

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triste (comparative plus triste, superlative le plus triste)

  1. sad

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin trīstis. Compare tristo, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from the same source.

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triste (plural tristi, superlative tristissimo)

  1. sad, unhappy, bleak
    Antonym: allegro

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  • triste in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Etymology 1

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trīste (not comparable)

  1. sadly

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trīste

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of trīstis

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  • “triste”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “triste”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • triste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French triste, borrowed from Latin trīstis.

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triste m or f

  1. (Jersey) sad

Norwegian Bokmål

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triste

  1. definite singular of trist
  2. plural of trist

Norwegian Nynorsk

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triste

  1. definite singular of trist
  2. plural of trist

Old French

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Borrowed from Latin trīstis.

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triste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular triste)

  1. sad
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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese triste, presumably a borrowing from Latin trīstis.

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triste m or f (plural tristes, comparable, comparative mais triste, superlative o mais triste or tristíssimo, diminutive tristinho, augmentative tristão)

  1. (of a person) sad; unhappy; down
    Synonym: infeliz
    Eles estavam tristes porque o inverno começou. ― They were sad because winter had begun.
  2. (of something) sad (causing sadness)
    Era um filme bastante triste. ― It was quite a sad film.
  3. (of a person) disappointed
    Synonyms: decepcionado, desapontado
    Estou muito triste com você. ― I’m really disappointed with you.
  4. (of a situation) lamentable; pitiful
    Synonyms: vergonhoso, lamentável
    A situação das escolas é triste. ― The situation of the schools is lamentable.

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triste f pl or n pl

  1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of trist

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin trīstis. Compare the Old Spanish tristo, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus.[1]

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triste m or f (masculine and feminine plural tristes, superlative tristísimo)

  1. sad, saddened, blue, gloomy, unhappy, joyless, triste
  2. dismal, dreary, glum, miserable, melancholy
  3. sorrowful, mournful
  4. forlorn
  5. upsetting, saddening
  6. dull

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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “triste”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Swedish

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triste

  1. definite natural masculine singular of trist

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